Department of Plastics Engineering

University oF Massachusetts

Lowell

 
  
 
 
 

 
 
PRESENTATIONS

“Development of a Wire and Cable Extrusion Line for Processing Polyolefins Containing Novel Flame Retardants”, (A. Fothergill, L. Driscoll, S. Ravichandran, S. Johnston, R.Nagarajan), ANTEC, Boston, MA, United States (2011).
“Novel polyphenol-metal oxide composites for FR applications”, (S. Ravichandran, W. Kiratitanavit, J. Kumar, R. Nagarajan), ANTEC, Boston, MA, United States (2011).
“Surface-Active Polymer Derived from Naturally Occurring Polysaccharides”, (Z. Mohd. Aris, R. Bouldin, R. Nagarajan), Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, Lowell MA, United States (2011).
“Novel ‘Greener’ Routes to Halogen-Free Flame Retardants”, (S. Ravichandran; R. Bouldin; J. Kumar ; R. Nagarajan), EPA People Prosperity and Planet Design Expo, Washington DC, United States (2011).
“Surface-Active Polymer Derived from Naturally Occurring Polysaccharides”, (Z. Mohd Aris, R. Bouldin, R. Nagarajan), American Chemical Society, Cellulose Division, Anaheim, CA, United States (2011).
“Exploring the viability and challenges of using biocatalysts for the synthesis of electrically conducting polymers” (R. M. Bouldin, J. Kumar, L. A. Samuelson, L. Kyriazidis, R. Nagarajan) Abstracts of Papers, 241st ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Anaheim, CA, United States (2011).
“Azobenzene functionalized polymer coatings for explosive detection using a surface acoustic wave device” (T. Ponrathnam, S. Liu, J. Cho, P. Kurup, H. Sun, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar), Sukant Tripathy Memorial Symposium, Lowell, MA, United States (2010).
“Development of a Wire and Cable Extrusion Line for Processing Polyolefins Containing Novel Flame Retardants”, (A. Fothergill, L. Driscoll, S. Ravichandran, S. Johnston, R. Nagarajan), International Wire and Cable Symposium, Providence RI, United States (2010).
“Biomimetic hematin catalyst for the synthesis of conductive polypyrrole in micellar nanoreactors”, (A. Kokil, S. Ravichandran, J. Kumar, R. Nagarajan), American Chemical Society Boston MA, United States (2010).
“Soluble pegylated polythiophenes: Synthesis and nitroaromatic sensing” (A. Kokil, T. Ponrathnam, A. Kumar, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar) Abstracts of Papers, ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States (2010).
“Azobenzene functionalized poly(dimethyl siloxane) coatings for explosive detection using a surface acoustic wave device” (T. Ponrathnam, S. Liu, A. Kokil, J. Cho, H. Sun, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, P. Kurup) Abstracts of Papers, 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States (2010).
“Biocatalytically polymerized flavonoids with enhanced antioxidant activity” (D. Kalyani, S. Tripathy, S. Nagarajan, R. Nagarajan, F. F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson, J. Kumar) Abstracts of Papers, 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States (2010).
“Naturally derived surface active polymers based on Chitosan”, (R. Bouldin, S. Shingi, R. Nagarajan), Abstracts of Papers, 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States (2010).
“Biomimetic hematin catalyst for the synthesis of conductive polypyrrole in micellar nanoreactors” (S. Ravichandran, A. Kokil, S. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, R. Nagarajan) Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 51(2), 656-657, (2010).
“Biocatalytic synthesis of fluorescent polypyrrole derivative”, (R. Bouldin, A. Kokil, J. Kumar, F.F. Bruno, L.A. Samuelson, R. Nagarajan), Abstracts of Papers, 14th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Washington, DC (2010).
“Soybean Peroxidase Catalyzed Enzymatic Synthesis of Soluble Pyrrole/EDOT Copolymers” (A. Tewari, A. Kokil, S. Ravichandran, S. Nagarajan, R. Bouldin, F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar), Abstracts, 36th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Hartford, CT, United States, October 7-10 NERM-021 (2009).
“Enzymatic synthesis of polycardanol microcapsules” (A. Kokil, S. Ravichandran, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar) Abstracts of Papers, 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, , August 16-20, COLL-169 (2009).
“Soybean Peroxidase Catalyzed Enzymatic Synthesis of Soluble Pyrrole/EDOT Copolymers” (A. Tewari. A. Kokil, S. Ravichandran, S. Nagarajan, R. Bouldin, F.F. Bruno, L. Samuelson, R. Nagarjaan, J. Kumar), 36th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Hartford, CT, NERM-021 (2009).
“Enzymatic synthesis of water soluble polypyrrole”, (R. Bouldin, S. Ravichandran, Sethumadhavan, R. Garhwal, S. Nagarajan, Subhalakshmi, J. Kumar, F. F. Bruno, Ferdinando L. Samuelson, R. Nagarajan), Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry), 50(2), (2009).
“Flame retardant materials from oxidative polymerization of naturally derived cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL) derivatives” (S. Ravichandran, R. Bouldin, S. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, R. Nagarajan), PMSE Preprints, 101, 1634-1635, (2009).
“Novel Wireless Sensors for Structural Health Surveillance” (S. Balasubramaniam, J. R. Park, A. Akyurtlu, C. Niezrecki, P. Avitabile, J. Chen, J. Mead, R. Nagarajan), Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health monitoring, Destech Publication Inc. 935 (2009).
“Conformal Passive Sensors for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring” (S. Balasubramaniam, J.-R. Park, T. Mistry, N. Angkawisittpan, A. Akyurtlu, T. Rao, R.Nagarajan) Proceedings of MRS fall meeting Symposium V, (2008).
“Biocatalysis for material science and drug discoveries” ( F. F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson, S. Nagarajan, R, Nagarajan, J. Kumar) From Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (2008).
“Biomimetic synthesis of water soluble conducting copolymers” (F. F. Bruno, S. A. Fossey, S. Nagarajan, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, L. A. Samuelson), Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry), 48(2), 9-10 (2007).
“A stable biomimetic redox catalyst obtained by enzyme catalyzed amidation of iron porphyrin” (S. Nagarajan, R. Nagarajan, F. F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson, J. Kumar), Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 48(2), 879-880 (2007).
“A novel template for the formation of water-soluble conducting polymers” (F.F. Bruno, S. Nagarajan, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, L. A. Samuelson), Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry), 48(2), 80-81 (2007).
“Biocatalytic modification of naturally occurring Iron porphyrin as a renewable catalyst” (S. Nagarajan, R. Tyagi, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, A.C. Watterson, F. F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson), Abstracts of Papers, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, March 25-29, (2007).
“Single step biocatalytic synthesis of sexithiophene” (S. Nagarajan, R. Nagarajan, M.Cazeca, J. Kumar, F.F.Bruno, L. A. Samuelson, Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry), 47(2), 1043-1044 (2006).
“Thiophene oligomer as a ‘redox mediator’ for the biocatalytic synthesis of Poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) [Pedot]” (R. Nagarajan, F. F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson and J. Kumar), Polymer Preprints (ACS, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 45 (2), 195-196 (2004).
“Conductive polymer complexes from macromolecule inspired biocatalysis” (F.F. Bruno, C. Drew, R. Nagarajan, X. Wang, J. Kumar and L. A. Samuelson), Proceeding of the ACS, Division of PMSE, 90, 234-235 (2004).
“Biomimetic synthesis of water soluble conductive polypyrrole and poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)” (F. F. Bruno, J. M. Fortier, R. Nagarajan, S. Roy, J. Kumar and L. A. Samuelson), MRS Proceedings,736 (Electronics on Unconventional Substrates--Electrotextiles and Giant-Area Flexible Circuits), 201-206 (2002).
“Synthesis of polyaniline on multi-walled carbon nanotubes” (F. F.Bruno, L. Samuelson, S. Roy, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, D. Ziegler and M. Sennett) Polymer Preprints (ACS, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 43(2), 961-962 (2002).
“Novel templated polyphenol for ionic conductivity” (F.F. Bruno, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar and L.A. Samuelson) Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (Advanced Fibers, Plastics, Laminates and Composites), 702, 229-234 (2002).
“Synthesis of a photoactive-azopolymer complexed with genomic DNA” (R. Nagarajan, S. Yang, S. Roy, J. Kumar, S.K. Tripathy, F. F.Bruno and L. A. Samuelson), Polymer Preprints (ACS, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 43(2), 959-960 (2002).
“Influence of template and enzyme on biocatalytic synthesis of conducting polyaniline as studied by solid-state NMR spectroscopy” (S. Sahoo, R. Nagarajan, S. Roy, L. Samuelson, J. Kumar and A. Cholli) Proceeding of the ACS, Division of PMSE (86), 15 (2002).
“Challenges in micro-thermal detection of energetic materials” (C. Chen; C. Kuo, R. Nagarajan, W. Bannister and J. Furry), Proceeding of the NATAS conference (2002).
“Use of hematin for the polymerization of water-soluble conductive polyaniline and polyphenol” (F. F. Bruno, R. Nagarajan, S. Roy, J. Kumar, S. K. Tripathy and L. Samuelson), MRS Proceedings 660, (Organic Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices) (2001).
“Enzyme catalyzed chromophore functionalization of ribonucleic acid” (S. Roy, R. Nagarajan, S. Yang, P. Wu, J. Kumar, L. Samuelson, F. F. Bruno, V. S. Parmar and S. K. Tripathy) Proceeding of the ACS, Division of PMSE, 455 (2001).
“DNA conformation switching using a templated conducting polymer” (R. Nagarajan, S. K. Tripathy, J.Kumar, F. F. Bruno and L. A. Samuelson), Proceeding of the ACS, Division of PMSE, 83, 546-547 (2000).
“Biochemical synthesis of water soluble conducting molecular complex of polyaniline and lignosulfonate” (F. F. Bruno, L. Samuelson, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar and S. K. Tripathy), Polymer Preprints, 41 (2), 1802-1803 (2000).
“Enzymatic template synthesis of processable polyphenol” (F. F. Bruno, R. Nagarajan, J. S. Sidhartha, K. Yang, J. Kumar, S. K. Tripathy and L. Samuelson), Proceeding of the SPE, 58th ANTEC, (2), 2336-2340 (2000).
“Biochemical synthesis and unusual conformational switching in a molecular complex of DNA and polyaniline" (R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar, S. K. Tripathy, F. F.Bruno and L. Samuelson) MRS Proceedings, 600, 249-254 (1999).
“Enzymatic template synthesis of polyphenol” (F. F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson, R. Nagarajan, S. K. Tripathy and J. Kumar) MRS proceedings, 600, 255-259 (1999).